"ISRAELI AUTHORITIES HAVE APPROVED A MAJOR EXPANSION OF A JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM." (BBC sub-headline, 10/25/2017)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41750916

"Israel approves 176 new settler homes in East Jerusalem" (BBC 

headline)

The above headline from today's BBC appears innocent enough, although the phrase "settler homes" brings with it the implication that for Jews to live in East Jerusalem in protected communities is somehow wrong.  This bias is just the icing on the cake of the larger bias represented in the sub-headline, "Israeli authorities have approved a major expansion of a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem."

East Jerusalem is the traditional Arab Quarter of Jerusalem, which Arabs and the EU and the UN (and apparently the BBC) prematurely and wrongly regard as part and parcel of a future "State of Palestine", speaking of that hypothetical, as if such a State were a fact. Such a State is not a fact. The BBC should be sued, as such an BBC news article ought not editorialize (a separate opinion piece is permissible). The omission of the word "Jewish" or "Israeli" from the phrase "in [Jewish/Israeli] occupied East Jerusalem does not avoid the obvious implication in the first part of that same sentence, "Israeli authorities have approved a major expansion of a Jewish settlement...". There is no excusing the BBC (or any news organization of politician or person) for presenting bias and opinion in the form and pretext of news. Loading the word "occupied" should never have occurred, not in this news article and not in any news article, as so loading such articles violates ethical standards of accurate and precise reporting.

News this past 18-months has been dominated by Elections in the UK, France, USA, Germany, China, and many other countries as well as by international warfare in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. If Israel has played an apparently minor role in world reporting during this period, this does not mean that events in Israel have been either insignificant or unimportant. The BDS movement must still be countered; the war in Syria has involved Israel directly, the Sinai situation involving Al-quaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Fatah, and the Muslim Brotherhood versus Egypt and Israel is an ongoing problem, as is the incessant threat of terrorism against Israel; and let us not forget Iran, nor the biases of the UN.

At sometimes more than others the BBC publishes and broadcasts opinion disguised as news reporting, almost as if to see, if Israel is paying the BBC any attention. We most hope that Israel is paying attention to the BBC and other media outlets and that Israel shall use every means at it's disposal to bring biased reporting to justice.